Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Peter Gutmann on Vista Content Protecti…

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Author: john lewis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Peter Gutmann on Vista Content Protection
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:25:24 +0000
"James Courtier-Dutton" <james.dutton@???> wrote:

> Don't worry. I don't think open source will get round to
> implementing all these content protection features. open source
> developers only implement what users want, and users don't want any
> of this content protection. Just take DVD playing as an example.
> How many Linux media players support region protection?...none.


I was thinking more along the lines of this vista stuff being
incorporated into next generation motherboards which will then
prevent linux from running at all

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John Lewis
Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application